So, for anyone living under a rock, apparently the Yanks are having a
Presidential election, and it's my duty as a random guy on the Internet to have
an opinion on the election. I haven't really been paying much attention to the
issues, but I can use help you out with by far the most important issue: Who
has the most American Surname.

For a data source, Forebears has
a nice system where you can find out various stats about different surnames,
which we'll use for this. Using that I calculated the percentage of people
with each surname who live in the US [excluding any who aren't known to
Forebears.io].

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Huckabee is a very strong winner here, with 3,700 in America, and only 20 in
the entire rest of the world, or a 99.5% America surname. No one else is even
close to matching him.

You might think that I would have done better to simply pick the name
that's most common in America, but calling "Smith" the most American name ever
doesn't seem quite right to me.

To give an example of why, most people would say that Ainsworth is a more English
name than Smith. This is
reflected in the stats: 28% of Ainsworth's live in England, but only 9% of
Smiths do.

Interestingly Ainsworth is actually more common in America than England,
but only slightly more popular; not the six times more numerous the population
differences would suggest, while Smith is pretty close to six times more
numerous. The same comparison works for Australia as well; Smith is about how
popular you'd expect it to be given our population differences, while
Ainsworth is about half as popular in Australia as you'd expect it to be.
The conclusion is obvious: Smith is a generic Anglosphere name, while
Ainsworth is more of a specifically English name.

For those of you who remain unconvinced, here's total numbers instead,
which gives Sanders a slight lead over Cruz, and then Graham, with everyone
else much further down: